1611 in music

The year 1611 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• January 1 – Oberon, the Faery Prince, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace; it features music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger and Robert Johnson.
• February 3 – Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, another Jonson/Jones masque, is performed at Whitehall, with music by Ferrabosco.

Publications

• Robert Ballard – a collection of arrangements for the lute.
• William Byrd – Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets
• Carlo Gesualdo
  • Sixth book of madrigals a 5
  • Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia, a 6
• Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger – Libro primo d'intavolatura di lauto
• Parthenia, a collection of keyboard music by John Bull, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons

Popular music

• Thomas Ravenscroft – Melismata

Opera

• Giulio Cesare Monteverdi – Il rapimento di Proserpina ^[1]

Births

• June 22 – Pablo Bruna, blind organist and composer (died 1679)^[2]
• December – Leonora Baroni, singer, instrumentalist and composer (died 1670)
• date unknown – Thomas Brewer, composer who introduced the "glee"

Deaths

• July – Simon Lohet, organist and composer (born c. 1550)
• August 20 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, composer (born c. 1548)
• date unknown
  • Livia d'Arco, singer (born c. 1565)
  • Pierre-Francisque Caroubel, violinist and composer (born 1556)
  • Johannes Eccard, composer and conductor (born 1553)
  • Gioseffo Guami, organist, singer and composer (born c. 1540)

References